Bottled. Pours pitch blakh with a small, lacing tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, peat and whiskey. Sweet flavor that ends up more dry with an alcohol burn. Full bodied, oily texture and soft to flat carb. A heavy and very nice impy.

Bottle. 17.5%. Best before 25.02.20. Pours black with a diminishing dark tan head. Aroma is slightly oxidized, with dark fruits and peat/smoke. Well-balanced, quite nice. Quite sweet flavour; molasses, with an alcohol burn; has a Vermouth-like feel to it. Notes of peat/smoke and dark fruits. The peat/smoke feels a bit unbalanced, but it’s still pretty good. Finish is the same, with the alcohol burn lingering, along with a tobacco-like smoked note. Smooth palate. Overall really good and generally well-balanced; the sweetness in the flavour is especially good I think. If the peat/smoke note had been more balanced, it would have scored higher. 02.02.14.

In short: Chemical solvent compound, sticky stuff and burnt cereals. A new entry in my bottom-10 beer ever. Astonishingly gross.How: Bottle 375ml, consumed with some age of it but still approximately 7 years before expiration date.The look: Black body topped by a tan ring of foam.In long: Nose is disturbingly nail polish remover, nothing else, I’ve never had such an intense nail polish remover smell from a beer, really like smelling an actual little flask of nail polish remover, and I used that stuff a lot in my younger days when I was using nails hardener for acoustic guitar. One of the most repulsive smell I have ever encountered in a beer. Taste is burnt plastic, highly phenolic alcohol, rubbing alcohol sensation, cereals that are charred to the max malts developing smoky-ashy character, sticky hard-liquor, maybe some wood. I could have been more descriptive but I quickly decided to drain pour my bottle. I can’t One of the most undrinkable beer I’ve ever had the misfortune of trying. If you die and go to heaven you will find a large stack of bottles like this one and when you are bored you can just pour down a bottle and its content falls directly in the mouth of the people below in hell.

UPDATED: SEP 14, 2013 375mL bottle, sent from Glouglouburp (thanks a lot, Dany), pours black with a small tan ring of head. Aroma brings out smoky islay barrels upfront, peat, wood and roasted malt. Flavour is very bold, with a wonderful balance between intense sweetness and the smokiness & peat from the islay. Quite sweet and moderately smoky (for islay) without being lopsided on either major flavour element. Booze is surprisingly well-worked in. Not the most complex, but certainly enjoyable. Very good.

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